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tkdguy reacted to Lawnmower Boy in Pleet Roodlepleen's Intergalactic Bestiary
Oh, come on. Would you do business with Pleet Roodlepleen?
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tkdguy got a reaction from Pariah in What Have You Watched Recently?
The Met production of Die Walkure and the US Open Championship matches: Grand Opera and Grand Slam
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tkdguy got a reaction from Pariah in In other news...
Bianca Andreescu wins at the US Open
She is the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam event.
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tkdguy reacted to Lord Liaden in "Neat" Pictures
Lord, that takes me back. I miss the innocence of that world.
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tkdguy reacted to Bazza in The Last Word
When Isis caught her hubby Osiris with her sister Nephthys, and wife to Set, she is said to have said to him: "You are dead to me".
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tkdguy reacted to Cancer in In other news...
Proton's radius puzzle looks to be converging on smaller but "Standard Physics" value
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tkdguy reacted to Cancer in Star Ship Gear!
Polymerized thiotimolene -- and other chemical substances where some of the interatomic bonds operate through hyperspace -- is another rich source of special materials for starship components. Producing such things has some strange barriers, however. Fabrication of specially shaped pieces of such materials requires careful selection of workers, as any sort of latent psionic resonance in the worker shaping the piece can have unpredictable and catastrophic temporal effects, and robotic manipulation of such materials is confounded by imposition of race conditions in the robot computer CPUs, usually resulting in destruction of robot, materials, factory, and (sometimes) planet.
Consequently, at this time such starship components have to worked by hand by the stupidest, least imaginative workers in civilization, riveting together generic regularly-shaped pieces under horrifically drab circumstances. Electromechanical automatons have been tried but they too fail destructively for reasons not yet fully understood. Steam-driven thermodynamic control mechanisms have shown real promise in avoiding the electropsionic-temporal instabilities limiting other hyperspatial fabrication processes.
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tkdguy reacted to Jkeown in Pleet Roodlepleen's Intergalactic Bestiary
I want to turn all of this, and the other 135 entries, into a giant Space Bestiary product, but I can't get a response from HERO Games.
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tkdguy reacted to massey in Swords in science fiction -- why?
What about personal stealth fields? Maybe there's an enemy who you can't see until they get within about 50 feet. Whether it's some chameleon-like natural camouflage, or a technological thing, you can't see them at normal ranged combat distances. Maybe that race doesn't use ranged weapons as much because 1) it might screw with their stealth tech, 2) if it's biological maybe they just never developed good ranged weapons (culturally it's something they never explored), or 3) maybe their distance vision sucks. So you've got this dangerous enemy who attacks at close range, so you need to start carrying swords and other hand to hand weapons to defend yourself.
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